On page 14 of Guns, Germs, and Steel, author Jared Diamond tells the story of meeting Yali on the beach in New Guinea. Yali is a local politician who quizzed Diamond on many aspects of world history, about the birds Diamond studied in New Guinea, and how Yali's ancestors reached New Guinea. Eventually, Yali asked Diamond, "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?"
(cargo is a New Guinean's description of all the stuff whites brought when they arrived: steel axes, matches, medicines, clothing, soft drinks, umbrellas Students: How would you answer Yali?)
(cargo is a New Guinean's description of all the stuff whites brought when they arrived: steel axes, matches, medicines, clothing, soft drinks, umbrellas Students: How would you answer Yali?)
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